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Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Bunker – Berks

Bunker

Originally a natural sand hole on the golf course. Now used also of artificially made hazards filled with sand or gravel.

Bye

The hole or holes of the stipulated course that remain unplayed, after a match is finished.

Bars of the Foot

- Portions of the wall or crust of the foot, which turn inwards and upwards at the base of the foot near the heel, and then run nearly parallel to the sides of the frog (q.v.).

Bars of the Mouth

- The intervals in a horse's jaws between the tushes or canine teeth and the grinders. Upon this smooth interval, which occurs just at the angle of the lips, the bit is placed.

Blaze

A stripe of white down a horse's face.

Blue Roan.-[See ROAN.]

Brisket

The lower part of a horse's chest, just behind the fore-legs.

Buck Knee

A knee joint which recedes from the front, instead of presenting a straight line from forearm to fetlock.

Bridge End and Maesteg

Of the Plas Machynlleth, a pack of ten couples, hunting in Montgomeryshire and Cardiganshire, much the same thing may be said, as also of the Penmaen farmers' pack, which hunts in the adjacent country. The Tynewydd, hunting from Treherbert, South Wales, is THE TATE LIBRARY

Berkeley

Old (West).

Blackmore Vale.

Barlow.

Berkshire

Old.

Blankney.

Beaufort's

Duke of.

Berks

South.

Blencathra.

Bedale.

Bicester Belvoir.

Hill.

Berkeley, Old (East).

Bilsdale. and Warden Border.

Bramham Moor.

Braes of Derwent.

Brecon.

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